Robert Lovett v. Walter S. Ray, Chairman, Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles

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• holding that Georgia’s two-year statute of limitations for personal injury actions applies to § 1983 suits filed in Georgia.
• holding that continuing violation doctrine did not apply to parole board’s decision to change plaintiff’s parole reconsideration date because decision was one-time act with continuing consequences and, therefore, limitations period was not extended
• concluding that a prisoner informed in 1998 that he would not be reconsidered for parole until 2006 “knew, or should have known, all the facts necessary to pursue a cause of action” at that time
• finding doctrine did not apply to parole board’s decision to change date of plaintiff’s reconsideration for parole because decision was a one-time act with continued consequences
• refusing to consider arguments presented for the first time in a reply brief
• affirming dismissal of challenge to changes in parole statute as time barred

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